Learn some alphabets of foreign languages. Russian is fun because some of the characters looks like English letters but have completely different sounds. Korean is also cool because it looks crazy complex but it's actually extremely simple.
When I was a kid, I loved pizza rolls but hated bagel bites. I have recently tried them both again, and now pizza rolls taste like shit, but bagel bites are pleasantly delicious.
So there used to be this cartoon called Silverhawks, which was about these dudes who are partially made of metal and they can fly.
First dream I can remember, I was at the doctor and they wanted to give me a shot in my leg. I was really afraid of needles at the time, but suddenly I became a Silverhawk. The nurse was trying to stick the needle in my thigh, but my thigh was metal, so her plan was foiled.
The RIF app was reddit to me. I would typically spend over an hour per day on it.
I do still check Reddit maybe once a day on my desktop, maybe for about 5 minutes. There are still a few communities on there which don't have an active alternative here on Lemmy. However, I have deleted all my old posts and comments, and I do not make any new ones.
I was walking down the sidewalk, and I was coming up behind another fellow who was walking slowly. When I was just a few feet behind him, I must have stepped on a stick or a leaf or something, and it made a cracking sound. The guy turns around facing me and shouts "YOU DIDN'T BREAK THEM EGGS, DID YA?"
Surprised, and having never encountered an actual crazy person before, I simply informed him that I did not, in fact, break the eggs.
At this point, he begins walking alongside me, and talking about some stuff that doesn't really make any sense to me. I try to be polite and chat a bit, but I'm really just hoping for him to leave me alone.
He finally says "I want to give you this", and he hands me what appeared to be a blue glass object, about the size of a small stone. He proceeds to tell me that if I have this object, the ladies won't be able to resist me. He continues "now let me show you how to use it. First of all, you gotta keep it in a safe place", and then he proceeds to pull another of these objects OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
I thanked him for his kindness and hurried on my way, just wondering if there was anywhere nearby that I might be able to wash my hands. After I put some distance between us, I looked back at him, just in time to see him turn towards another person, and I could faintly hear: "YOU DIDN'T BREAK THEM EGGS, DID YA?"
It's kind of the opposite for me. Like many people said, when you are young, every experience mostly feels new. However, when everything feels new to you, there's really nothing special about it. For me, I always embraced the familiar. I look back at my memories of family vacations with disappointment, because as everyone else was wanting to go and do fun things, I was complaining about how I would rather be watching TV or playing my gameboy. Now as an adult, I understand how precious our experiences can be. I look out at a mountain and I appreciate the beauty of it. I think about the history that has taken place around it. I think about how other people might have experienced it. I get so much more from it than I ever would have as a child.
I was just having the same problem. Signing out and back in was doing nothing. Right after signing in again I came here and tried to post, and it told me I wasn't signed in. Then I signed it and back in again, and my frontpage finally came out.
I don't know what's going on, but it was like it's telling me I logged in but it didn't actually log me in most of the times I tried.
I have read about potentially releasing reflective particles into the atmosphere. Should be a lot easier and cheaper than building some huge mirror. The problem is, we don't know what side effects it could cause down the line.
Wow, this thread has been really eye opening. As someone who completely hates exercise (I honestly can't imagine many other things that are more unpleasant), it had never really occurred to me that people exercised because they genuinely enjoyed it. I always just assumed that everyone else hated it and just forced themselves into it.
You can't do it within lemmy itself, but the Android app Connect for Lemmy can let you block instances while you are accessing lemmy through the app.